This is a collection of movie reviews originally published in Sojourner, "to help (moviegoers) see through the powerful (often reprehensible) suggestions made by Hollywood about gender, race, and class in the country." Pointed but not preachy, Maio's critiques are thoughful, provoking, and entertaining. She clearly enjoys watching and discussing movies, and is generous in her appreciation of hard work, good ideas, and moving performances even in films she dislikes. Maio looks at each film both individually and in the contexts of history and society, covering more than 30 films in seven subject categories, such as romance, race, motherhood, and revenge. ISBN 0-89594-469-3: $21.95; ISBN 0-89594-468-5 (pbk.): $9.95.

Reviews over thirty films in such categories as romance, race, revenge, and motherhood, and critiques the film on its own merit as well as on its place in history and society

Almost wherever we look, depictions of sexuality, both subtle and not-so-subtle, are omnipresent. Whatever the medium, popular culture representations tell us something about ourselves and about the ideologies of which they are symptomatic. These essays examine the strategies of power implicit in popular representations of sexuality. The authors--scholars in fields such as sociology, philosophy, biology, political science, history, and English literature-- eschew rigid disciplinary boundaries.

In Black Sexual Politics, one of America's most influential writers on race and gender explores how images of Black sexuality have been used to maintain the color line and how they threaten to spread a new brand of racism around the world today.

Hugely acclaimed author of THIS IS UNCOOL and FEAR OF MUSIC turns his attention to rock 'n' roll movies. From BLACKBOARD JUNGLE to QUADROPHENIA, from 8 MILE to ABBA: THE MOVIE, no one has seriously looked at the strange phenomenon that is the rock 'n' roll movie. Garry Mulholland turns his focus away from classic records to the best, the worst, the weird and the completely deranged from the world of the rock movie. Part serious critical appreciation, part celebration of B-movie trash, Garry Mulholland's inclusive approach is the key to his success. He is as comfortable deconstructing the likes of PERFORMANCE, GIMME SHELTER or JUBILEE as he is celebrating FOOTLOOSE or JAILHOUSE ROCK. As he writes: '... Anyone who rejects the joy that the likes of GREASE or DIRTY DANCING or FAME have brought millions of people without even attempting to engage with why such unapologetic trash works can't really be that interested in filmgoers at all.'

Turner, Tina: Madonna: Benatar, Pat: Lauper, Cindy.

In this book the author examines how women detectives are portrayed in film, in literature and on TV. Chapters examine the portrayal of female investigators in each of these four genres: the Gothic novel, the lesbian detective novel, television and film.